The purpose of this paper was to investigate the determinants of risk-taking in the context of Islamic and conventional microfinance institutions (MFIs) while considering the capital structure’s role in moderating the risk-taking decisions’ effect on financial performance. Fixed and Random...

The study aims to estimate the effect of leverage on non-performing loans in Vietnamese commercial banks from 2010 to 2020. This article uses qualitative (expert interviews, namely senior credit officers' and credit managers' surveys to find out the expert consensus coefficient) and quantitative...

The main objective of this paper is to investigate determinants of non-performing loans in the Middle East and North Africa region by exploring the role of bank-specific and macroeconomic factors, particularly in the period of the global financial crisis, as well as the COVID-19 pandemic, as a...

The study empirically investigates selected macroeconomic determinants of non-performing loans (NPLs) for a panel of 8 South Asian Association for Regional Cooperation countries (Afghanistan, Bangladesh, Bhutan, India, Nepal, Maldives, Pakistan, and Sri Lanka), using annual data for the period...

Dutch banks were put under heavy strains early in the global downturn and have comparatively weak financial buffers to cope with new shocks. Falling house prices have increased the share of households with negative home equity to nearly 35% for home-owning households and 40% for mortgage...

This paper illustrates channels by which regulations that require banks to hold liquid assets can either increase or decrease a bank's incentive to take risk with its remaining ineligible assets. A greater capacity to respond to liquidity stress increases the potential profits a bank would put...

We use an extensive loan-level dataset to study the influence of non-performing loans (NPLs) on the supply of bank credit to non-financial firms in Italy between 2008 and 2015. We use time-varying firm fixed effects to control for shifts in demand and changes in borrower characteristics, and we...

This paper examines the productivity growth of banks around the world. We opt for a novel parametric methodology that decomposes productivity growth into different components, and in particular into a ‘shadow' quasi-fixed input that would impose negative externalities to bank performance....